Don Cristobal Hermanus Mendoza Malbec 2025
$30, 14% alcohol, cork, Argentina.
The appeal and the effect of this wine is based on ripe, solid, well-formed fruit flavour, though the inclusion of chocolate and Black Forest cake-like characters ramps the appeal higher. This is a dry, savoury-accented wine of medium weight but it comes with extras and it comes with charm. It’s easy to be a fan. It drinks very well. 91 points.
Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He founded The Winefront, is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion (and former editor of Halliday magazine), and is the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He is 100% independent, and tastes between 5,000 and 10,000 wines each year, blind and in comparative brackets as often as is practicable.
Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.
